Dir. Joaquín Pedretti
Argentina/Paraguay/Chile, 2024 | 89 min | Social/Historical | Spanish/Guarani with English Subtitles | Rated R | Caribbean/Central American/Belize Premiere
Paraguay, 1947. Nina is a 20 year old young woman living in Asunción at the height of the Paraguayan Civil War that ended with the Democratic Spring. She longs to be a singer, but when her revolutionary family flees abruptly she is forced to live in the house of a conservative family as a maid. She offers her services to the revolution and frees various political prisoners, including Raúl, a communist with whom she has an affair and becomes pregnant. She is later forced to flee the country herself after her lover abandons her.
Joaquin Pedretti (1985) was born and raised in Corrientes, Argentina. He studied and worked in Buenos Aires, London and Barcelona, where he obtained a degree in cinematography, directing and screenwriting at Catalunya Cinema Studies Center and Bande à Part film school. He also attended writing, drama, dance, photo and music courses and workshops.
As a director, he made more than twenty pieces of different genres and formats in between Spain, England and Argentina. He now works as a freelance author, scriptwriter and film language teacher at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste.